LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

SELECT LIST
OF REFERENCES ON
ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION

INCLUDING REPORTS OF THE BRITISH

MINISTRY OF RECONSTRUCTION

COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

HERMAN H. B. MEYER

CHIEF BIBLIOGRAPHER

WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1919

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lifecar PREFATORY NOTE

The list here presented is intended to include only the outstanding books on the general subject of Economic Reconstruction, and some others dealing with special phases of general interest.

Its purpose is to furnish to such institutions and individuals as are not receiving the more extensive bibliographies a brief list of readily accessible material which gives general insight into the subject.

More ambitious bibliographies are the following: Outline studies on the problems of the reconstruction period, prepared

by a special committee. New York, Association press, 1918.

2 p. I., 39 p. 19cm. Turner, Mrs. V. B. List of references on reconstruction. (In U. S.

Bureau of labor statistics. Monthly labor review, Dec. 1918, p.

1529–1561.) U. S. Dept. of labor. Library. Reconstruction; a preliminary bib

liography. Comp. by Laura A. Thompson. 57 p. Mimeographed

Reconstruction: Supplementary list of references. Comp. by Laura A. Thompson. 52 p. Mimeographed. The Division of Bibliography has also compiled the following mimeographed lists: Training and rehabilitation of disabled or injured men. July 19,

1917. 8 p. Supplementary list, Oct. 21, 1918. 13 p. League of nations, Oct. 7, 1918. 18 p. Supplementary list, Mar. 3,

1919. 13 p. Settlement of soldiers and sailors on the land. Mar. 25, 1919. 8 p.

H. H. B. MEYER

Chief Bibliographer APPLETON P. C. GRIFFIN Acting Librarian of Congress Washington, D. C., February 14, 1919

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SELECT LIST OF REFERENCES ON ECONOMIC RECONSTRUC

TION INCLUDING REPORTS OF THE BRITISH MINISTRY OF RECONSTRUCTION

1 After-war trade plans of five nations: Great Britain, France,

Italy, Japan, Germany. A series of five articles setting forth the preparations which these countries are making to expand their foreign trade when the world conflict ends. Reprinted from the New York Evening Post.

New York, N. Y., Evening Post, 1918. [22] p. 2 America after the war, by an American jurist.

New York, The Century company, 1918. 5 p. l., 3–208 p.
18cm

Reprinted from the New York times.
CONTENTS.-America and the war.-Belgium and Luxemburg -

The Balkans.-The sequel of the war.-Mexico.-Canada.—The
West Indies.-Asia and the Pacific.-America after the war.-
Democracy.-An American merchant marine. - Preparedness.

D619A646 3 American academy of political and social science, Phila

delphia America's interests after the European war.
Philadelphia, The American academy of political and social
science, 1915. xi, 323 p. 1 illus. 25cm (Its Annals.

vol. Lxi [whole no. 150].)
CONTENTS.-Foreword, by C. L. King.-pt. 1. America's industries

as affected by the European war: America's industries as affected
by the European war, by A. B. Johnson. European war influences
upon American industry and labor, by S. Gompers. America's
unemployment problem, by H. Bruère. Some recent surveys
of unemployment, by R. Meeker. The war and immigration, by
F. J. Warne. Unemployment and immigration, by F. A. Kellor.
Some industrial lessons of the European war, by J. P. Jackson.-
pt. 11. Stability and development in America's international
trade: American export policies, by F. Johnston. Commercial
isolation versus international trade, by M. J. Bonn. The rela-
tions of Central and South America with the United States as
affected by the European war, by L. F. Corea. What can the
United States and Latin America do for each other? By C. M.
Muchnic. Transportation facilities needed for Latin American
trade, by W. Ring.-pt. 11. American industrial supremacy
through efficiency in business organization: The effect of idle
plant on costs and profits, by H. L. Gantt. The effect of unem-
ployment on the wage scale, by Mary Van Kleeck. Scientific
management applied to the steadying of employment, and its

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